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Shoes Across the World: A joint post by Guilia and Jenny
Do you love shoes? If the answer is no, skip this post. If you've answered yes and you struggle in the morning to find exactly THOSE shoes, keep on reading.
Guilia: I do keep my shoes in their boxes, but I find it difficult to know which pair is within which box. So I usually have to open 2 or 3 boxes before finding what I was looking for.
Jenny: I have an embarrassing number of shoes. Some friends have helped me move and know the number of boxes they had to carry from the moving van to my bedroom. They are sworn to secrecy. It is hard to keep track of that many shoes.
Here is the solution: put a picture of the shoes on the box so you'll see immediately where the sneakers or the yellow high heel sandals are.
They will look like this:
Guilia: What I like to do, first of all, is take a picture of all my shoes. Place them on a neutral background and center them well.
Then print your pictures out for on your shoe boxes. If you have a Kodak Printer Dock, try the Wallet option, cut the single images and stick them on the boxes. Otherwise get self-adhesive A4 paper and print them on your inkjet printer. Or the Kodak Picture Kiosk can do the work for you.
And I do have a reading suggestion, too: Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex. Have fun!
Jenny: When I first saw Guilia's shoe pictures I was struck by the similarities... even though we live an ocean apart. We both opted for a nice woodgrain background. We both had shiny metallic flats and we both had beat up Chuck Taylors. However, while Guilia used an dramatic angle for her shoe pictures I went for a straight-on shot. But then again, her artistic shots shouldn't surprise me. Guilia IS in Milan... the shoe fashion capital of the world!
Not only does putting pictures of my shoes on my shoe boxes make it infinitely easier to locate the correct pair, but it is nice to have a visual record of my shoe collection. And well... after seeing Guilia's shoes... it's kinda fun to see what shoes other people have.
